…because he believes that dreams are fragile
and shouldn't be disturbed.

~ Omar Musa from 'The Great Displaced'


The Disappearing is a project that (literally) maps poetry to place. As an ongoing project, The Disappearing uncovers poetry’s invisible currents in the world around us. Using geo-location to map poetry to place, the project charts fragmentary histories, impressions and memories, encouraging readers to interact in a non-linear way. Not only is The Disappearing a travel-sized library of poems about places, it is also an alternative travel guide that preserves and shares experiences, emotions and ideas that vanish over time.

The Disappearing website is currently undergoing a transformation. Explore the poems through our digital library and via the map below. Submit a poem to our public contributions project by emailing amelia@redroompoetry.org.


Poets

Poems | Ten By Ten | Singular Voices in The Strand | Kimberley Quartet | Nymphs | Charlotte Street | Timid Couples | eclipsing binary | Great Lake Miena | Tragedy at Surfers' Paradise | Living on Chocolate and Beer | Diminuendo | Going Under | White Cat. | Koan | Tilt | Two-dimensional | STUPID SONNET I | Potts Point Redevelopment (1871 fixer upper) | The Plain | St. Kilda | The Floating Palais | No Clock | North Reef, QLD | Pride Parade 99 | Kati Thanda/Lake Eyre | All the way from | The Astronomer | Behind Orana Takeaway | Harvester | View of a Library | Stand Tall | A sky boat song | Before Sydney had a Hard Rock Cafe | Untitled | The Olgas | Into country in our minds with no 'e' | Moments by dry sand | Icehouse | Golden Summer, Eaglemont | A Bright Winter's Morning | Acknowledgements | geographies: Broadmount | Candlelight 95 | The Invisible Mother | This Wind | The Ox | Epiphany | gulp | How to stay afloat | weight | Nightpoems 13/7/2010 | Black Throated Finch | Flood Watch | Alice | The Arch | The Great Displaced | Flemington to Flinders Station #59 | Temporary | Glimpses and ghosts on Larakia land | Steyne Hotel - Manly | Synonyms for colour | Govetts Leap | Tent | Sky | Twenty Judgements | Two Songs | Go to be lost to others, overwhelmed/ By bones and light and themselves…* | Cranbrook, Mid-June (after Martin Harrison) | Paterson's Curse | The Hunger Games | To The Girls With The Emeralds | The Boy of the Lunar Grapefruits | The Cyclops | Who Was The Halloween Woman? | Monologue of the Alien | To The Girls With The Sledge Hammers To Cleopatra of Gondwana Land Sexy Ghoul Of The High Rise Buildings By Maximilian Draconious | Monologue of the Moustached Girl | The Hadean Eon | Lampshade Phrenology | Multicultural Uncultured | Umbrella | Croc Dreaming | Our Son after the Q Bar | House no. 208 | Mother's Lost Song | ghosting the ghetto | Two Souls Had Their Rendezvous | 62, Lost bottles depot, the outworkers sew (but not for banners). | 60, Tapestry’d sitting room, mint glass vase and bracken spray. | 64, Headquarters, cornerist, accountant, and entrepreneur. | Silvery | 58, back-most lot, collapsible ceiling and underground lung ward. | The Max | (En)Joy rides in police cars | Gethsemane at the Bowl | At Eucla | South of Greg Johns’ Rhythm, Glenelg | Sydney Refracted | Fade Out | The Disappearing Suite | The Valley | A town from land John Oxley said would never be inhabited by civilised men | Pride | Leaning | Clouds Afternoon Jazz Sprinkles | Lucky Charm | Nothing remains | Did I tell you | where walls meet | The Dig Tree | No Room for Tears Here | PLEASE DON'T GO | The View from the sold house | She spits | Speak in hands not tongue | The disappearing | Melbourne Poem - Toilet Scribble | July 13th/14th Sydney for Ken | The Same Bay, Twice | Health Department FactSheet No.67(a) | Reappearing | Slow Falling | The Prospect of the Highland Dusk to Dawn | Desire paths | You can see | Endemic Problem | En Route | The Sapphire Coast | Kakadu | Good Blood | Temple relics | The Smell of the Sea | YILAALU –BU-GADI (once upon a time in the bay of Gadi) | Rage | Spirit Remains | Dripping with Decadence (Big House, big white lies) | A1 Bakery | A little history of Mechanics' Institutes | Shadow dance at Dorrigo Plains | The Rain of Bodies | I take up a long, lone branch, bone white | II. An old convict recalls | project eden | La-pa | The Bathurst Plain | offset | On the Catwalk | Terra | Wollombi | Cairn | North of Moony Point | Routes off the Putty Road | The Wolves | The Royal Treatment | Along Terrigal Beach | French's Darlinghurst 1985 | Ivo | Don't Worry Be Happy | Magpie Song | IN THE TIME OF | My own Lucy | Lunch Hour | Mother | What Ingrid Bergman Wanted | International Nippon Australia New Zealand Club | Rouse Hill | The Ballad of Bubble & Squeak | Gladys's Party | Less of You | Traffic | apere amp— (utation) | Point of View | Happy Wagga | Bank of the River | Thinning our little herd | Mr Fucking Rocket tires of saving for a mortgage | Absence | The Report | Birthplace | The Stairs | The Gilligan’s Nights | A View of Elizabeth Bay House | Featherlight | Job | Leaving the north | Appearance Shadows | Fountain 77, Glebe | Groove | Now | Taylor Square Ghost Tale | what we build, buckles | Poetry Flash Mob | Beneath the South Head Old Road, 1835 | Missing Persons | Evening of the day | Kumbilor – hill in my Country | Tracks Wind Back | Bridge over the River Memory | Blackout